[syslinux] SYSLINUX 1.71 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 17 22:12:28 PDT 2002


I have released SYSLINUX 1.71 after fixing the total "brown-paper-bag" 
class bug in 1.70.  My best guess is that I checked in the wrong verson 
of some code.

	-hpa



SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a major
rewrite of some of the internals.  It also includes some bug fixes.

SYSLINUX 1.71 is a bug fix to 1.70.

Changes in 1.71:
         * Fix a "brown paper bag" class bug in the new core code.

Changes in 1.70:
         * Major code restructuring.
         * Relax the conventional memory limits somewhat.
         * MEMDISK: Set up the "version number string" pointer in the
           header correctly.
         * SYSLINUX: Fix, again, "the bug that won't die": the use of
           the offset parameter with the SYSLINUX installer.
         * SYSLINUX: Fix possible superblock corruption problem in the
           SYSLINUX installer.


Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        1.71
Entered-date:   2002-04-17
Description:    SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system
                 which operates off MS-DOS floppies.  It is intended to
                 simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue
                 disks, and other uses for boot floppies.  A SYSLINUX floppy
                 can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other
                 OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once
                 it has been created; and requires only a ~ 8K DOS program
                 or ~ 16K Linux program to create in the first place.
                 Starting with version 1.46 it also includes PXELINUX, a
                 program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM
                 compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution
                 Environment) specification.
                 Starting with version 1.60 it also includes ISOLINUX,
                 a program to boot off an ISO 9660 in native
                 "no-emulation" mode.
                 Starting with version 1.65, it additionally includes
                 MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from
                 nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux msdos boot loader floppy install
                 network pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk
Author:         hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by:  hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site:   ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
                 342249 syslinux-1.71.tar.gz
                 381698 syslinux-1.71.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.97 or
                 later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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